Series K, type 33 var. -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 33 variety, tall diademed and square-draped bust right, long wreath ties behind, cross pommée before, rev. lion head right, chevron mane, ear forward, distinct sharp teeth, snake-tongue rises in figure-of-eight ending in serpent head, pellet cross above, 1.08g, 270° (SL 38-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 428 this coin; T&S pp. 388- 91, 306; Gannon 59, no. 237, 64-5, 131-2, 134, 135, 139, 156, 178, no. 155, 189, no. 62, Figs. 2.48b, 2.49a, 2.58, 4.35b, 4.36a, 4.36d; North 93; Spink 803).

Images and selected text reproduced by kind permission of Spink and Son Ltd, London, auction 21000, The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I, March 18th 2021, lot #183.  Provenance: T Young, January 2014 ~ Found by M O'Bee, near Horncastle (Lincolnshire), 2 December 2013 ~ [EMC 2013.0408].